alternate Eurovision song contest entries/winners

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Hörnla

What if...

...the responsible parts of the music industries in the participating nations would have been especially adept in spotting and promoting new talents which also OTL made quite an impact, maybe even internationally, without any ESC involvement.

I am thinking especially about the last three decades and about the spectacular possibilities of the United Kingdom to this regards.

To make the task simpler, everyone may ignore the 20th-century-rule that participants had to sing mainly in their native language. Also, rock tunes are not a crime in this scenario...even long time before Lordi :eek:.

So what are your suggestions whom we might have seen in the Song Contest? Which OTL songs would come to your mind?
 

President Al Bundy

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I'm bumping this thread, because I want everybody to watch this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPC0wBy-Pf0

This song became close to compete for Germany in the 2003 ESC, but sadly it lost in the national competition against that other song I can't remember. I think that this song might have landed in the top 10. And it's funny of course (And I think it's even for non-Germans funny).
 

Sachyriel

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In the Early 1990s a brutal conglomeration takes over Britain without so much of a fight, in fact it's very quiet about what it does; to gain allies it increases the autonomy of Scotland, gives Ireland all of Ireland and to make maters easier, sells stuff to the USA from the Caribbean. It's looking to gain prestige around the world for profit-margins sake, and decides that the Eurovision contest must be won. For two decades they use agents and bribes to get close to the people who might be judging this years competition.

However, their operational budget is getting low, and they need to hire someone who they can get onto their side without raising too much suspicion.

Lady Sovereign will take the job...
 

Goldstein

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As for Spain's possible winners, and repercussions:

Anabel Conde was very close in 1995, as she ended up 2nd, one of the best results Spain ever had. Being a newcomer, her record company broke soon after that, and she never re-entered the music scene, though she has participated in numeorus project to the date, and her neame remains obscure. Should she had won the 1995 contest, she could have had a long pop career, subtantially altering the Spanish musical scene.

Rosa created in 2002 the greatest hype for Eurovision in the history of the country. She won Operacion Triunfo (Spain's "American Idol" equivalent) in its first edition, and she had a tajectory closely resembling that of Susan Boyle: A morbidly obese and terribly uneducated woman with a great voice, that experienced a significant change during the contest. Finally she ended up 7th, the best result of the decade. Should she had won, the results deriving of her wide support could be enough to alter the mainstream history of Spain during the century, as 2003 would be full of alternate births :D

Finally, I only have to say that Eurovision would have had an almost unprecedented support in Spain, and presumably a better result (though it's hard to tell) in 2010, if Chimo Bayo, the early 90's pioneer of the Spanish electronic music scene (and kind of a living legend), wouldn't have been disqualified, and his version was the one to represent Spain.
 

Hörnla

President Al Bundy said:
I'm bumping this thread, because I want everybody to watch this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPC0wBy-Pf0

This song became close to compete for Germany in the 2003 ESC, but sadly it lost in the national competition against that other song I can't remember. I think that this song might have landed in the top 10. And it's funny of course (And I think it's even for non-Germans funny).
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Ahhh, I doubt the latter part, although I loved most of Brandt's "Gerd Show" impersonations of the Ex-Kanzler turned Russian gas salesman.

However, it might have fared better than Germany's OTL entry by "Lou" (whoever that was!). It was original and weird....and not just utterly boring. So, well, maybe you are right, maybe a 10th place (thinking of that Ukrainian comedy-drag-act which came 2nd a few years ago).
 

Hörnla

Alternate German entries Part I: the 80s

This list is one part personal preference, a big part commercial success back then in Germany and one part craziness.

Not every entry is checked up to the actual release day, so in some cases we would have to assume it was written a little earlier. I tried to evade songs which are not original and even stuck to the German language mostly.

AFAIK, none of these songs came even close to applying...

However, most years, anything is better than OTL's entries. And most of these entries would have generated a lot of interest into the song contest or "Grand Prix" as we said back then.

1980 Mike Krüger "Der Nippel" (The Nnipple)

Two Years ahead of Nicole's Winner "Ein bisschen Frieden", a simple guy
with a huge nose and a guitar instead of a girl
with a guitar and impossible hairdo. Germany doesn't get far, Krüger's song about despair with technology (and the
female anatomy) was simply ahead of its time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOympMtG5Dk

1981 Gottlieb Wendehals "Polonäse Blankenese" (Blankenese polonaise)

Germany dives deeper into nonsense....and earns a historical zero points altogether.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKoB-OeTTaA

1982 Spider Murphy Gang "Skandal im Sperrbezirk" (Scandal In The Forbidden District)

A sensational 3rd place for this Bavarian band whose entry almost got banned due to its risky lyrics about the market-situation in Munich's red-light-district.
Oops, it would have actually been the year when Germany won for the first time....bummer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uTb_9kveOY

1983 Nena "99 Luftballons"(99 Red Ballons)

But this time....Germany's first win ever. And admit, not only the music is better than "Ein bisschen Frieden", also the lyrics are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyPoanf619M

1984 Alphaville "Berühmt in Japan" (Big in Japan)

To fit the rules of the contest, Alphaville wrote the song in German. They later released the intended English version
which became a minor international hit. Since then, there has been speculation that they could have fared far better than
11th place without the "mother-tongue-rule".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c98qdFQF7sw

1985 Herbert Grönemeyer "Flugzeuge im Bauch" (Airplanes in my stomach)

The first ballad as an entry for Germany in the 80s leaves the other Europeans puzzled. Yet, a respectable 8th place for
the guy from "Das Boot".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nizAwipT7VA

1986 Münchner Freiheit "Ohne Dich" (Without You)

They should have tried the Eurovision when they were still good, not years laster. Could have brought them to a good
2nd place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWGG...83BB5DDEE&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=3

1987 Jürgen v.d.Lippe "Guten Morgen, liebe Sorgen" (Good Morning, My Dear Sorrows)

Nobody knows why Germany picked v.d.Lippes sad depressive ballad.:p 15th place. The French ambassador complained about the
line "Enten jagen macht besoffen doppelt so viel Spaß" (hunting 2CVs is double fun while being drunk).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X94ZM-paqIc

1988 Herbert Grönemeyer "Was soll das?" (What's that about?)

After the desaster of 1987, Germany tries is luck again with Herbie. His catchy song about being betrayed ends up more
successful than his first entry, reaching 3rd place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmiVcATeYwM

1989 Marius Müller-Westernhagen "Sexy"

The year of Grönemeyer's rival as the top German language singer at that time. "Sexy" was driven to fourth place by a great performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgQOWfduSro
 

mattep74

In 2009 Sweden had a intressting entery: The outsider Poltava sung by Ultima Thule, written by Thomas Gsson managed to win the swedish qualification much to the dissmay of media.

Then it went to Moscow and managed to qualify for the final and in the final Ukraine gave Sweden 12 points instead of Russia. Poland gave 12 points to Sweden instead of Russia. Every former Soviet state gave Sweden 12 points.

Russia didnt give Sweden any points btw.

Sweden manages to win and the reaction from Swedish TV is:
Oh great, we already had trouble with the princesswedding and the world cup, how do we finance this

The reaction from the politicians were: Ehh, uhhh, wopie? Right wing parties celebrate, nobody to the left of the Moderate party really liked that fact that a extremist group won.

In the election of 2010 the Swedish democtrats got 12 percent of the vote and the rest is history.

This is REALLY AH
 

Hörnla

Alternate German entries Part II: the 90s

1990 Matthias Reim "Verdammt ich lieb Dich" (Dammit, I love you)

The less said the better. 14th place for this Rockschlager oddity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G02xoDwBrIU

1991 Scorpions "Wind of Change"

Here I make use of my self-allowed ignorance of the mother-tongue-rule. After all, the guys from Hannover ended the Cold War with their song (NOT David Hasselhoff). The Scorpions win the contest convincingly despite
needing to shorten the song considerably. Whistling rules!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZtAw1xOR8k&feature=fvst

1992 Die Fantastischen Vier "Die da!?" (Her there!?)

Germany almost wins again surprisingly with four unknown talents and the first German hip-hop entry. 3rd rank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ljcXBTFcFA

1993 Die Toten Hosen "Wünsch Dir Was" (Make A Wish)

Germany moves a little towards Punk. Again Top 10, with a 8th place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmvY7KOkrDM

1994 H-Blocks "Move!"

After Alphaville another band from Münster, this time allowed to sing mainly in English. Their Crossover-hymn moves them to 9th place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUrH7xjk820

1995 Pur "Ich lieb Dich" (I Love You)

Pur's very German sort of Housewive-Krautrock only got to 17th place. Shame, there epic "Abenteuerland" is definitely too long...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj9OUtvGrqM

1996 Fettes Brot "Jein" (Yes/No)

Germany tries a slow hip-hop number and a trumpet. Rank #7 is actually the most successful entry in years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BXf0u2a-U4

1997 Tic Tac Toe "Warum?" (Why?)

Crappy ballad by crappy girlgroup finishes at the last place.
Couldn't even find the song on youtube despite being #1 in Germany for 7 weeks. Thank you, Ministry of Truth!

1998 Die Ärzte "Ein Schwein namens Männer" (A Pig Called Men)

Is punk-pop the solution? The self-proclaimed "world's best band" got their
first chance at the ESC in 1998. Ending up in
6th place they improved clearly on last year's desaster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DJ0Inxfmyk

1999 Die Fantastischen Vier "MfG - Mit freundlichen Grüßen" (Yours sincerely)

This weird rap consisting mainly of acronyms remains largely misunderstood in Europe- but it has rhythm. The Fantas can slightly
improve on their 1992 result and end up in 2nd place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUV3KvnvT-w
 

ah-sue

What If ...

The Eurovision Song Contest had been referred to the International Court of Justice in 1975 for Crimes Against Humanity?
 

Orville_third

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If "We don't want a Put In"(sp?) is allowed in and wins, expect a major Russian backlash.(Said song was Georgia's entry in 2008)
 

Orville_third

Banned
Russia can stop trading with the countries that voted for it...or stop the gas...
Besides, there could be a lot better protest songs...

Here's one...what if Celine Dion didn't win? She is Canadian, after all.
 

CalBear

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MatthewFirth said:
Bumping this thread to see if anyone wanted to do alternate entries for other countries?
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SEVEN YEARS.

SEVEN. For a one sentence zero content post.

You have been here for five years, that is plenty of time to figure out the rules.

You had to click through a warning that TOLD you that you were doing this. You did it anyway.

NEVER do this again.
 
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